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1. 29 days ago on Brewster Rockit

   I’m reading this with a cardboard box under my monitor. With Amazon swooshes on the box.

2. 2 months ago on The Buckets

   I have some fortune cookies with FTX on the back, right before the FTX disaster. With fortunes like “Your journey to financial freedom begins today.”

3. 3 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   1957

4. 6 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   The original Butterfly Effect was a weakness of a climate model having too few data points. i.e. if I make a climate model and have only 100 places where I collect data, each of those 100 points has a huge effect on the model. Hence a butterfly flapping at a collection point makes the model go haywire and extreme, and predict a huge storm.

   Since then, chaos theory does seem to show small changes in a system sometimes have huge real consequences. And the Butterfly Effect seems to be accepted by the public as real, and not as a flaw in climate modeling.

5. 7 months ago on The Meaning of Lila

   The comic leaves out the long discussion with the computer before getting to the first human.

6. 7 months ago on Arlo and Janis

   I put after tax money in an IRA in the 1970’s. When I started to take RMD’s in 2011, I found the 1976 form 8606. Without that old 8606, I would have had to pay taxes on some money that had already been taxed.

7. 11 months ago on Glasbergen Cartoons

   3000 bottles of beer is only 150 days at 20 beers a day. A short retirement.

8. 12 months ago on Brewster Rockit

   The original butterfly effect was a comment about models that had too few data inputs. If you only had 100 data points in your model, odd data in one of them – the butterfly flaps its wings there – could cause your model to erroneously predict a hurricane. Somehow this is now used as if its real.

9. over 1 year ago on The Meaning of Lila

   It’s hard for us Scrooge’s to understand this joke if we NEVER spend money at a Starbucks, but always make coffee at home. Always because of the cost.(What’s a Venti? The joke implies it costs more than a Grande. But Grande sounds like it’s very grand.)

10. over 1 year ago on Super-Fun-Pak Comix

    When I was 12, I got ether for having tonsils out. I dreamed I was a round ball, alone in a dark universe, spinning and saying “being, being, being.” This Boltzmann stuff scares me that my dream might be true.